Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumbaun, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbaun
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67902, -7.70538
- SMR number
- LF019-019001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 33m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-5m; H 0.6-0.75m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.2-0.3m). In places the bank is faced with drystone masonry of uncertain date. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at SE with a possible accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. From NW-N-NNE a modern WNW-ESE running field boundary has been built on the line of the fosse. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a low outer bank and a house site (LF019-019002-) within the interior at S; these are no longer identifiable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.